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Quotes About March

If she hears anything, it's tambourines, and nobody can march to them. You can't do anything but dance to tambourines, and the likes of us will never catch the rhythm.
~ Ferrol Sams
one foundational truth that I have learned from apocalyptic theology, it is this: God is the subject of the verb. God doesn't need us to help him make his "dream" come true; God is on the march far ahead of us, bringing his purposes to pass
~ Fleming Rutledge
I saw the first of the 7-mile-long column appear - red and orange and green banners, 'Ban the Bomb!' etc., shining and swaying slowly. Absolute silence. I found myself weeping to see the tan, dusty marchers, knapsacks on their backs - Quakers and Catholics, Africans and whites, Algerians and French - 40 percent were London housewives.
~ Sylvia Plath
The March of Dimes turned a disease not nearly as prevalent as childhood cancer into a national crusade. Polio was not that widespread.
~ David Oshinsky
A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build.
~ Hisham Matar
What begins as comedy ends as a triumphal march, wouldn't you say?
~ Roberto Bolano
He wondered how many would ever march home. Better it seemed to export cheese or cloth, but it was true that fortunes were made in the military trade. Though seldom by the soldiers, any more than by the cheeses.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Stop gibbering. The Countess took his arm, and began more-or-less frog-marching him upstairs. Roic made a mental note of her technique, for future reference. She glanced over her shoulder and gave Roic a reassuring, if rather unexpected, wink. The
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
The Hepburn report, however, was both belated and insufficient in hobbling Rockefeller's triumphant march, for by this time he had parlayed his secret railroad contracts into preeminence in oil. More important, his firm had now advanced far beyond the railroads to more efficient pipelines.
~ Ron Chernow
History is made by men and women of vision and courage. Tonight freedom is on the march.
~ Ronald Reagan
Cannot tell why we or they March and suffer day by day. Children of the Camp are we, Serving each in his degree; Children of the yoke and goad, Pack and harness, pad and load!
~ Rudyard Kipling
They walked arm in arm, occupying the whole width of the street and taking in every Musketeer they met, so that in the end it became a triumphal march. The heart of D'Artagnan swam in delirium; he marched between Athos and Porthos, pressing them tenderly.
~ Alexandre Dumas
But chaos is the natural state of things, for men pull always in their own directions. It is those who want the world to march all the same way that give themselves the challenge.
~ Joe Abercrombie
She could hear singing in the distance. One of the Breakers' marches, out on the Middleway. So long kept prisoner, they loved to march. So long kept silent, they loved to sing. To blurt their opinions from every street corner. Food and fuel might be in short supply, but of opinion there was a glut.
~ Joe Abercrombie
As she stood there looking about, that radio sound resolved into the bluff baritone of Burl Ives, encouraging all the world to have a holly jolly Christmas, and never mind it was the third week of March. The voice was coming from the attached garage, a dingy building with a single roll-up door and four square windows looking into it, milky with filth.
~ Joe Hill
Oh, beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly,Play the Dead March as you carry me along;Take me to the green valley, there lay the sod o'er me,For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong.
~ Anonymous: Cowboy Songs
March, rain at the windows, and he had to be up at five the next morning. He listened to the click and patter of drops against the panes.
~ Anthony Doerr
They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet.
~ Anthony Doerr
Writing on March 15, 44 B.C., she reported that Julius Caesar had been assassinated
~ Anthony Everitt
The dictator was due to quit Rome on March 18 to join his legions in Greece.
~ Anthony Everitt
More than twenty thousand men, one third of the army, were lost in the month it took to march
~ Anthony Everitt
Descartes had somehow managed to use skepticism in service of orthodoxy; he preserved crucial shards of church doctrine—the immortal soul, for starters—while buying intellectual space for the physical sciences to continue the march toward knowledge.
~ Franklin Foer
Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona.
~ Rick Renzi
On March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights activists marched in Selma, Alabama, demanding an end to racial discrimination. The demonstration was led by now-Rep. John Lewis and Hosea Williams, who worked with my father, Martin Luther King Jr.
~ Martin Luther King III